Felix Reinhold Voretzsch

Town hall Cotta, east side

Town hall Cotta, portal

Town hall Cotta, detail of the portal figures

Felix Reinhold Voretzsch (born April 13, 1873 ; † 1951 ) was a German architect and sculptor .

Life

He studied at the building trade school in Chemnitz and at the Technical University of Dresden with Karl Weißbach . From 1893 he worked as a freelance artist and architect. While the town hall in Cotta he designed was still strongly influenced by historicism , he designed the buildings on Dresden's Bürgerwiese in Art Nouveau style . In particular, the Bürgerwiese 20 building in Dresden showed a sculptural ornamentation of the balcony parapets in the then modern Art Nouveau style. He was one of the most important Dresden architects of his time because he felt completely committed to Art Nouveau in his building sculptures . It was therefore also featured in the building magazine Die Architektur des XX. Century mentioned:

“Among the Dresden architects ... FR Voretzsch is in the front row. Of his residential buildings, the one on Bürgerwiese already shows a completely modern feature in the composition of the facade, which is just as decidedly revealed in most of the plastic ornamentation. "

Buildings and designs

• 1899:
  • Apartment building Bürgerwiese 20 in Dresden (destroyed in 1945).
  • Dresden, Künstlerheim (draft not carried out).

• 1900:
  • Town hall Cotta
  • Dresden, Reichenbachstrasse 51 (destroyed in 1945).
  • Dresden, Reichenbachstrasse 57 (destroyed in 1945).
  • Tenement building Bürgerwiese 22 in Dresden ("Dianabad").

• 1902:
  • Dresden, Lindengasse 2 (destroyed in 1945).
  • Dresden, Lindengasse 4 (destroyed in 1945).
  • Dresden, Lindengasse 14 (destroyed in 1945).

• 1902/03
  • (with Heino Otto ) Villa Merz, Markneukirchen

War memorial 1914-18

Dresden Felix Voretzsch designed the Regiment monument to the fallen in World War I soldiers of the Rifle Regiment Prince George (Royal. Saxon) no. 108 . The memorial was erected in the regiment's barracks "where the Dresdner Heide falls to the Elbe Valley" and was ceremoniously unveiled on June 4, 1928. In the course of the redesign of the Alaunplatz to the “Platz der Tälmann-Pioneers”, the remains of the memorial that had been preserved until then were grounded and greened in 1953.

literature

• Voretzsch, Felix Reinhold . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 547 .
• Volker Helas : Architecture in Dresden 1800-1900 . Verlag der Kunst Dresden GmbH, Dresden 1991, ISBN 3-364-00261-4 .
• Volker Helas and Gudrun Peltz: Art Nouveau architecture in Dresden. KNOP Verlag, Dresden 1999, ISBN 3-934363-00-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helas (1991), p. 200 (Voretzsch, Felix Reinhold).
2. ↑ The architecture of the XX. Century 1901, 1st year, 3rd issue, p. 41/42, plate 56.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Helas / Peltz, p. 211 (Voretzsch, Felix Reinhold).
4. ↑ Helas / Peltz, p. 184 [Bürgerwiese 22 (Dianabad)].
5. ↑ industriekultur-in-sachsen.de
6. ↑ Beyer, Manfred: Das Schützendenkmal (Schützenehrenmal) - in: Military historical writings of the working group Sächsische Militärgeschichte eV (Ed.): Disappeared Monuments - Destroyed - Forgetting (Military Monuments in Dresden), Issue 7, Dresden 2005, p. 17 f.